Ridin tha Ferry Faustus
Clustered on a gangplank
Children vainly piping
Over the harbor
Guilt-stricken in their new world
And consumed in the old
Clad in mourning weeds
Radically sad
Tears left behind a bathroom makeout
Psychos
The rapey sessions
Tights torn and thighs snipped
Buck and Kujo flip oz in the skate park
Corduroy creeps alone at night
Missing a person
Platonic golden showers
The backdrop of a manic crush
Anything to warm us
While glacial reality melts away.
Women and children first
Set adrift or
Locked below loaded decks
Of Nancy’s tarot
Bone spurs
Aging handymen
Fencing Turner’s ranch
Why die old
Just to keep despondent
City dogs full
Kiss a cannonball
And feed the fish,
Curved spines
Flashing in rich colors
Indifferent to the crushed ribs
Neath their strait teeth
They’ll nibble your apparel
Mobbing like teenagers
Too conditioned to disregard perception
And let the body breathe reflexively
Whalebone corsets
Tightened by those in attendance
Invoking allegiance
To the Christians’ Baal
Put the burning corpse of a kid
On a pied
And slap its ass.